Word: blanketly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minute later I crossed the line with the overhead clock reading 3:11:00. Someone put a medal over my head while someone else wrapped a mylar blanket around me. It was over. I had finished...
...report gives a blanket endorsement to the activities of Harvard administrators and police, and comments only on student actions. Moreover, there are indications that in addition to being one-sided, the CRR's report may actually have ignored or covered up testimony about improprieties committed by Harvard officials at last spring's events. Some students have even charged that there are factual innacuracies in the report regarding their activities as well as those of administrators and police. Others have alleged that the grounds on which they were convicted are vague and inappropriate. Unfortunately, because the CRR hearings--comprising 60 hours...
...also about to respond to a recommendation by Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility that may lead to the sale of stock of firms selling substantial quantities of goods used in the administration of apartheid. But selling selected stocks in particular cases is one thing and blanket divestment is quite another...
...three years. But the price was my intimate relationship with the couch. I really didn't mind sleeping on the couch two or three times a week, but many times I would come back to my room late only to wake up the couple while dragging my pillow and blanket out into the common room...
...oddities, cruelties and bizarre twists that occurred began to pour forth after the return to the U.S. of the last 39 hostages. Some stories were horrific, some implausible, others surreal. There were accounts of the hijackers turning away from stark brutality to administer kindnesses to passengers: fetching a blanket for a young girl with bronchitis, providing cough drops for a passenger with cold symptoms. One terrorist, it was recalled, proposed marriage to the flight's purser; at another point, a hijacker beat a passenger, threatened to shoot him, then apologized and wept with his victim. Passengers became targets in many...